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Glass and glamour: Steuben's modern moment, 1930-1960.
By the early twentieth century, the lightness and transparency of glass had come to define all that was good about modernism. From the Crystal Palace designed by Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865) and built for London's Great Exhibition of 1851, to the glass skyscrapers by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) of the 1920s, the transparency of buildings clad in sheets of glass symbolized a new free and open society. The Great Depression reinforced the utopian connotations of glass, for science and industry represented positive forces that would propel society to better economic times. In the 1930s inventions like glass blocks and Thermopane windows reached the marketplace with ...
- Steuben glass has a rich history.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) December 26, 2003 700+ words
...pieces, the show focuses on this earlier, pivotal phase. It begins in the early 1930s when young Harvard-educated Arthur Amory Houghton Jr., who took over at Steuben in 1933, gets invaluable advice from industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague. "Go modern...
- Steuben glass has a rich history.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Goldsmith, Diane December 31, 2003 700+ words
...pieces, the show focuses on this earlier, pivotal phase. It begins in the early 1930s when young Harvard-educated Arthur Amory Houghton Jr., who took over at Steuben in 1933, gets invaluable advice from industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague. "Go modern...
- Steuben Glass To Launch Major League Baseball Crystal Collectibles.
- Newspaper article from: Entertainment Newsweekly May 15, 2009 700+ words
Steuben Glass, the premier American hand blown...deliver the very best for our fans, and Steuben Glass is widely-known for their excellence...and through 800.STEUBEN. About Steuben Glass: Steuben Glass is the premier art...
- BENTSEN, QUAYLE LIFESTYLES IN SHARP CONTRAST IT'S STEUBEN GLASS VS. GOLF...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 30, 1988 700+ words
...Bentsen were fewer but more elegant. In 1987, he received a Steuben glass eagle, value $300, from the Private Sector Council, Washington...1985, the Headliners Club of Austin, Texas, gave him a Steuben glass "Excalibur" valued at $2,450. And in 1984, Bentsen...
- Steuben Glass to launch crystal collectibles for MLB.(IN THE NEWS)
- Magazine article from: Ceramic Industry July 1, 2009 700+ words
Steuben Glass and Major League Baseball (MLB) have teamed up to create a selection of crystal baseball collectibles. Highlights include a...
- Doyle Graf Mabley is named advertising agency for Steuben Glass.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 19, 1986 700+ words
...NEW YORK, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Doyle Graf Mabley today announced it was named the new advertising agency for Steuben Glass. The account had been at Ogilvy & Mather since 1954. "We have had a long, comfortable and productive relationship...
- Doyle Graf Mabley named new advertising agency for Steuben Glass.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 20, 1986 700+ words
...NEW YORK, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Doyle Graf Mabley today announced it was named the new advertising agency for Steuben Glass. The account had been at Ogilvy & Mather since 1954. "We have had a long, comfortable and productive relationship...
- Liquid crystal: New York designer Ted Muehling lends his magic touch to Steuben...
- Magazine article from: W Singer, Natasha April 1, 2005 700+ words
...industrial stove, he'll slice and facet it, transforming it into a prototype stopper for a decanter he's designing for Steuben Glass. "It's been a challenge to work with heavy lead crystal," says the 52-year-old ponytailed Muehling, and it's...
Source: HighBeam Research, Glass and glamour: Steuben's modern moment, 1930-1960.